hey Greg, a little tip on turning bronze or brass, turn your tool upside down and run lathe in reverse, all the chips will go down between ways, you can catch them in a towel and not have them flying in your face.....hope this helps, Paul, I learned this from Keith Fenner.....
Quick lathe tip, Leave a bit of extra material on the od and than finish the id. Then do a finish pass on the od. This allowes the grunt of stresses to be removed and ensures the od doesnt warp.
A saw dust collection system isn't just for saw dust. Works well in mechine shops for collecting small machining chips also, But instead of bags our big shop uses 50gal stainless steel drums and the collector was used from an old funiture company.😎👍👍For a small shop the bag ones work great.
A beautiful finish on that bushing!!! I've used my shop vac to catch the chips. Mr. Brown suggested running the lathe in reverse but my lathe doesn't have a reverse... The bronze sure looked silver on my screen. You were getting pretty smooth with the hand feeding!!!
Awesome job guys!! Up here in Massachusetts we had machine shops on every corner when we had all the clothing mills here in the 1920's through the early 1980's. Then everything went overseas for cheap labor, and all the machine shops went out of business.
A similar thing happened here when the cotton mill owners sold the looms to Indian business owners. Lots of mills closed here in the North of England (Burnley in particular suffered badly) and again the 1980's to date as manufacturers got stuff made in China. It's a disgusting betrayal.
Liked and subscribed 👍👍🙂 Nice work. Love the machining part of the video. Nice that the customer called you before having to line bore the main body of the part👍 It’s like that would be a common problem in your line of work with customers running things to failure before calling you to fix stuff like this.
12:50, really love button tools, I made 5 inch diameter sleeve for a custom steering wheel column on a mahogany boat using that tool, it set the lathe at 4 tpi and made a kool looking spiral effect.......they are great for removing welds too....
Not sure what your lathe is but most lathes have a shear pin which connects the drive shaft that passes through the apron from the gear box. On that shaft just outside the gearbox is usually a sleeve that covers the shear pin. You have to slide the cover away from the gearbox to expose the shear pin then you knock out the shear pin replace it with a new one and slide the cover back and away you go. the shear pin is a sacrificial part the snaps to protect the gearbox incase the feed rate is too excessive.
You will regret making that bushing from alloy 932 - that application calls for a high stress impact resistant bronze. Commonly either an aluminum bronze or manganese bronze. Did you notice the original bushing was a yellowish green hue of color vs the pinkish hue of color of the 932. Working at that scrap yard and the size of that operation they would most certainly have a handheld XRF analyzer in the metal sorting nonferrous operation and could have easily shot the original bushing and given you the alloy and chemistry to choose the correct longer lasting alloy. 932 is great for a spinning shaft or slow moving friction. I own a a similar operation and have repaired our grapples and attaching links for magnets replacing bushing etc.. If that is all that was available in this supply chain broken world you bought some time for the customer but it will not be long lasting. I appreciate your skill level and your willingness to share with us all. These videos are great way to teach and for everyone to learn.
I completely agree 932 is not the best choice for that application. It was what I could get the fastest. I would rather make another correct bushing in a few months than have to line bore the steel housing and get a new pin.
Greg, have you ever tried using spade drills for roughing in those large bushings? They save a lot of time and also work well for deep boring when making new pin bosses. I have a couple that will bore up to 36" deep and somewhere up to around 7" in diameter and down to about 3" diameter with the same shank. The cutting inserts and reasonably priced and can be sharpened many times before they are worn out.
I would have heated that part up with a rose bud expanding the hole letting the bushing almost fall in to place? Right? I just took over my DADS mobile hevey equipment repair and maintenance service at the age of 30 so now that hes retired I don't have him with his experience know how and knowledge Right there with me every day. So any advice, knowledge about this would be awesome. Thanks guy keep the videos coming.
Those aren’t chips, it’s Man Glitter! I can build most anything in the construction industry but machining and mechanics is intriguing to me. All of this seems impossible to me until watching these videos
Awesome video Greg, thank you very much for sharing. When are you getting a Karen to do the videography? It’s pretty hard doing it all on your own. Watching from Perth Western Australia.😁👍🇦🇺
do operators not inspect their equipment at the start of each shift anymore? i inherited my grandfathers 1970 wheelhouse raider gatden tractor that i grew up cutting his 5 archers each week. he wat hed me inspect the belts and greese all the spindles rvery week. thing is 53 years old and it is just starting to show a little play in the front stearing. it will out last me if my sone takes proper cre of it. of my soapbox. another great job
@@atheistpeace7579 even the owners of the company don’t want to bother with maintenance until it’s too late. And the same company will do it over and over again.
Something that you didn’t do because the old 1 didn’t have 1 would a grease spiral on the inside have been helpful. Might have been difficult, might have been better or worse.
I charge the same for anything I do. They are paying for my time if I’m machining something or or waiting in my truck for someone to show up. It’s all the same.
Probably a dumb question but did they use the reassembled claw without the bushing for two weeks or just let the machine stand idle til you came back weeks later?
Not shy about your depth of cut on that bushing. Speaking of which, haircut and beard trim - did you visit a barber or Richard Pryor that sumbitch in the field ?!?
" Enter the Bushing " , Not one of Bruce lee's best films. Smashing repair, i saw the centre trench and thought Lubrication. It should " Outlast the Claw" ( A terrible bruce lee film). Sorry I'm waffling.
